Ohio River Storms

Today on CNN the weather headline read: Storms on Ohio River from Kentucky to Ohio. Now, I used to live in Cincinnati during law school and I can remember many a time cruising Columbia Parkway on a nice sunny day, looking out at all the boats zooming up and down the Ohio River, and at Kentucky on the opposite bank.

That’s right folks, Kentucky makes up the entire south eastern border of Ohio. So if we have storms from Kentucky to Ohio on the Ohio River that’s a long, windy storm about a ¼ mile across. People at CNN weather really should look at maps that have political boundaries on them and not just cold fronts.

I did look at a map and what they meant to say was Storms Along Ohio River Valley from the Mississippi River to Eastern Ohio. You could even shorten it a bit. But saying from Kentucky to Ohio means next to nothing.